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From: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@novell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xl: Special case tap/aio for disk validation
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:03:05 -0700
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Kamala Narasimhan wrote:
>> - phy:/path/to/device
>> - file:/path/to/file
>> - tap:/path/to/file
>>     
>
> Along with phy, file and tap for block device types there appear to be a 'drdb' option too.  Do we actively support it?

The xend toolstack supports arbitrary external block device types.  We
have block-iscsi and block-npiv,  and the drbd project provides
block-drbd.  I'm quite sure I've seen other custom block types as well. 
Will these arbitrary block device types still be supported in the new
toolstack?

Thanks,
Jim